Scottish Borders Council is considering an application by a property developer to build a housing estate on the opposite bank of the River Tweed from Abbotsford, to which Historic Scotland and the National Trust for Scotland object.

An additional problem was competition in the Liberal heartlands in Scotland and Wales from the Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru who both grew as electoral forces from the 1960s onwards.

The story got around that he had refused to join the new party because he feared he would not be able to keep his Hamilton seat at a general election ; local Scottish National Party supporters nicknamed him " Chicken George ".

The split with Mebyon Kernow was down to the same debate that was occurring in most of the political parties campaigning for autonomy from the United Kingdom at the time ( for example the Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru ), whether to be a centre-left party appealing to the electorate on a social democratic line, or whether to appeal emotionally on a centre-right cultural line.

It was addressed by Labour MPs Jon Trickett, Emily Thornberry, John McDonnell ( politician ) | John McDonnell, Michael Meacher, Diane Abbott and Jeremy Corbyn, and Elfyn Llwyd of Plaid Cymru and Angus MacNeil of the Scottish National Party.

Reconstructed Irish crannógs are located in Craggaunowen, Ireland ; the Irish National Heritage Park, in Wexford, Ireland ; and in Scotland at the " Scottish Crannog Centre " at Loch Tay, Perthshire.

He was returned at a by-election on 13 April 1978, an important victory which was seen as halting the rise of the Scottish National Party.

On 16 June, Dewar set out the legislative programme for the Executive which included: an Education bill to improve standards in Scottish schools ; land reform to give right of access to the countryside, a bill to abolish the feudal system of land tenure ; and a bill to establish National Parks in Scotland.

The national collection is housed in the National Gallery of Scotland, located on the Mound, and now linked to the Royal Scottish Academy, which holds regular major exhibitions of painting.

Contemporary collections are shown in the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, and the nearby Dean Gallery.

The Scottish National Portrait Gallery focuses on portraits and photography.

In that election five regionalist parties got seats: the Social Democratic and Labour Party ( SDLP ) of Northern Ireland, the Scottish National Party ( SNP ), the Flemish People's Union ( VU ), the Walloon Democratic Front of Francophones ( FDF ) and the South Tyrolean People's Party ( SVP ).

The other members of the Bureau are all vice-presidents: Jill Evans ( Plaid Cymru ), Gustave Alirol ( Occitan Party ), Fabrizio Comencini ( Liga Veneta Repubblica ), Ana Miranda Paz ( Galician Nationalist Bloc ), Ian Hudghton ( Scottish National Party ), Sybren Posthumus ( Frisian National Party ), Sebastian Colio ( Basque Solidarity ), Dimitrios Ioannou ( Rainbow ), Rolf Granlund ( Future of Åland ), Reinhild Campidell ( South Tyrolean Freedom ) and Lucy Collyer ( Majorca Socialist Party ).

* 1638 – The Scottish National Covenant is signed in Edinburgh.

Representatives of various sections of Scottish society drew up the National Covenant in 1638, objecting to the King's liturgical innovations.

With all the main parties committed to the Union, new nationalist and independent political groupings began to emerge, including the National Party of Scotland in 1928 and Scottish Party in 1930.

They joined to form the Scottish National Party ( SNP ) in 1934, with the goal of creating an independent Scotland, but it enjoyed little electoral success in the Westminster system.

This period saw the emergence of the Scottish National Party and movements for both Scottish independence and more popularly devolution.

The Scottish National Party gained its first seat at Westminster in 1945 and became a party of national prominence during the 1970s, achieving 11 MPs in 1974.

Scottish journalist Alex Massie wrote in National Review:

Setts may be registered with the International Tartan Index ( ITI ) of the charitable organisation Scottish Tartans Authority ( STA ), which maintains a collection of fabric samples characterized by name and thread count, for free, and / or registered with the Scottish Register of Tartans ( SRT ) of the statutory body the National Archives of Scotland ( NAS ), if the tartan meets NAS's criteria, for UK ₤ 70 as of 2010.

The party is a member of the European Free Alliance and has close links with Plaid Cymru, the Scottish National Party and the Breton Democratic Union.

Significant strands of this infrastructure include: The Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh College of Art, Talbot Rice Gallery ( University of Edinburgh ) and the Edinburgh Annuale.

In Edinburgh also, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery has statues of Bruce and Wallace in niches flanking the main entrance.

Wallace statue by D. W. Stevenson on the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh

* Scottish National Portrait Gallery, in Edinburgh

Portrait by Hugh Douglas Hamilton, Scottish National Portrait Gallery

Scottish National Gallery viewed from the south in front of the Royal Scottish Academy and Princes Street

Scottish National Gallery, viewed from the north

The lower entrance of the Scottish National Gallery in Princes Street Gardens

The Scottish National Gallery is the national art gallery of Scotland.

In the early 21st century, the Playfair Project saw the renovation of the Royal Scottish Academy Building and the construction of an underground connecting space between the Gallery and the Academy Building.

The research facilities at the Scottish National Gallery include the Prints and Drawings Collection of over 30, 000 works on paper, from the early Renaissance to the late nineteenth century ; and the reference-only Research Library.

David Hume and Adam Smith at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery

* the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh

The exhibition was hosted at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh between December 3, 2008 and February 15, 2009.

Seibu Museum, Tokyo ; Hayward Gallery, London ; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England ; Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh, Scotland ; Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands ; Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam ; Lenbachhaus Städtische Galerie, Munich, Germany ; Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal, Germany ; Frankfurter Kunstverein ; 14 galleries and museums in Australia ; and 7 galleries and museums in New Zealand.

** Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Calum MacKenzie, in his preface to the exhibition catalog, The Scottish Cartoonists ( Glasgow Print Studio Gallery, 1979 ) defined the selection criteria:

* 1991 Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland

* 1974 Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland